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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
11-29-2013, 01:49 AM
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Camera manufacturers are lazy. (Too.)
Phones - and their cameras - are developing faster then dedicated cameras of any kind. At first, technology had to trickle down from cameras to smartphones. Then it started to trickle down from phones to camera instead. Now, the camera industry can't (or won't) even keep up with the phones anymore, and we're seeying technologies in phones that we would wish to have in cameras!
Think of the Nokia Truesense technology, how would that have worked out on an APS-C format camera? A 173mp camera would surely be talked about, no marketing needed there. And think of the 3 sensor "Ultrapixel" technology used by the HTC One to capture 300% more light. How would that work out in a bigger format and behind better glass? And think of Apple that does superresolution by rapidly snapping multiple pictures, without the user even knowing. Camera manufacturers are fighting a trench war, dug into the same trench for years, afraid to try anything out of the ordinary.
Not to mention software. Camera users beg, whine and hope for new firmwares from their lazy manufacturers that fixes this and does better that. While with phones people just build, share, sell and buy apps, most of which receive automatic updates weekly.
I'm glad that there are younger manufacturers like Sony and Sigma pioneering new things now. Imagine photography's future if they didn't.
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